Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Advarra is a leader in clinical research, dedicated to advancing human health through innovative technology solutions. The Project Manager will lead customer-facing product implementations and support internal initiatives, ensuring projects are completed on time and aligned with company goals.
Responsibilities
- Orchestrate and drive the successful and timely completion of tasks to achieve customer organizational goals, including the identification and mitigation of risks and issues which may impact the project
- Work with the customer to understand their current state processes, goals, and priorities in order to provide implementation strategy, scope, rollout, and staffing recommendations
- Communicate effectively and build strong relationships with all project stakeholders, including project sponsors, subject matter experts, and project team members in a timely and consistent manner
- Review and monitor project work to ensure forward progress is made and work is completed on time and within budget
- Identify, monitor, and communicate project-related risks or issues and mitigation plans including scope changes that may arise during the implementation
- Facilitate, coordinate, and arbitrate cross-functional discussions and decisions with subject matter experts within key functional areas
- Ability to understand the organization’s strategic priorities and adapt project timelines and tasks accordingly
- Lead onsite and offsite meetings and training events
- Work with customers to review and validate application configuration options and lead workflow and process development conversations
- Drive data migration activities, including data mapping, validation, and issue resolution
- Drive internal projects and process improvement initiatives to completion, ensuring team members stay on track, risks are identified, and issues are resolved in a timely manner
- Share and encourage others to share and use the lessons learned from project work in order to identify and implement process improvements
- Contribute to our implementation and software documentation
- Act as expert resource for Product Support Specialists, Business Analysis, and other departments in all functional and content areas associated with a project
- Contribute project experience to the knowledge library
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree or relevant experience
- 5-8 years of experience managing medium to large-scale implementation projects using a standard project management methodology
- Experience identifying and implementing process improvements
- Ability to present and lead customer-facing group discussions with confidence and conciseness
- Ability to effectively negotiate and build consensus with various audiences and manage project activities
- Project Management Certification (PMP)
- 2 years of experience in the clinical research industry
- Prior managerial experience
- Proven organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
- Ability to travel up to 25%
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Experience using MS Project and MS Access
- Business analysis experience in process definition, gap analysis, and workflow design
- Data migration experience including data mapping and validation
Benefits
- Variable bonus
- Health coverage
- Paid holidays
- Other benefits
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